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Usage examples of milkman.

It was obvious that The Terrine was staked out, but as the bogus milkman moved down the street I wondered why he should have told me so much, unless a course of action had already been prepared for me.

Ophelia with her hair in curlpapers, and bearing the white milk-jug that was to be left on the doorstep ready for the milkman.

The lead chimp was dressed as a Gujarati milkman, which the local crowd loved.

This was so favourably received by the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Richard and Mr. Guppy ran down through the kitchen to catch him when he should be released.

Printers, landlords, tax-men, milkmen, contributors, staff: it paid them next to nothing and always at the very end of the eleventh hour.

The milkman glanced at the coolers, then reached over them and took one of the empty chocolate milk cartons he kept in the far corner.

He heard all about the milkman and my time in Galloway, and my deciphering Scudder's notes at the inn.

It wasn't that the milkman enjoyed being disturbed, but the upstairs woman had complained so often about his radio, even threatening to involve the landlord, that the current disturbance was manna from heaven.

Here there was a lot of activity, because Green Meadows Dairy opened early and the milkmen had their appointed rounds.

And someday somebody’ll say, ‘Oh, it’s so fine we can go to the supermarket after dark and we can pick and choose from shelves of stuff we’ve never even heard of before, but whatever happened to those milkmen, or those fellas used to sell watermelons out of the back of their trucks, or that woman who sold fresh vegetables right out of her garden and smiled like the sun when you said good mornin’?

Nixon or anyone else -- but it would be a hell of a lot easier to cope with if we could pick up a glimmer of light at the end of this foul tunnel of a year that only mad dogs and milkmen can claim to have survived without serious brain damage.

During the day, such stillness belongs to early risers like milkmen and newspaper boys.

The manuscript bounced back and forth down the hall at McCaffrey's new home in County Wicklow, with story conferences occurring over the breakfast table before the milkman arrived.

Piet DeVries, thirty-sevenyear-old Dutch dairy farmhand, and Willem Berglund, thirty-nineyear-old Norwegian bank teller and part-time milkman, wanted to settle for nothing less than a dairy dukedom, but with their depleted funds they found themselves reluctantly looking for other options.

The various milkmen, grocers and butchers of the two former housewives have been praised to the skies or run into the ground so many times that in our imaginations they've grown as old as Methuselah.